To forget pain is to be painless; to forget care is to be rid of it; to go abroad is to accomplish both.
Suddenly the nickel-clad horse takes the bit in its mouth and goes slanting for the curbstone defying all prayers and all your powers to change its mind - your heart stands still, your breath hangs fire, your legs forget to work.
The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.
Damn these human beings; if I had invented them I would go hide my head in a bag.
Architects cannot teach nature anything.
It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.